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Hazel Eyes Wife of Afraid of Enemy

Birth
Death
29 Dec 1890
Wounded Knee, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Aged 36 years. Also known as "Brown Eyes." Probable victim of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre at Wounded Knee. While one source has her surviving, most reports indicate she, her husband, and their children perished.

The 1886 U.S. Indian Census shows Hazel Eyes (sometimes known as Brown Eyes) living with her husband, Afraid of Enemy, and their children, Not Afraid of Lodge, Scared the Hawk, Moons, and Beautiful Spotted, on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Sources:
James McLaughlin Papers, Microfilm Roll 17,
Notebook 40, Assumption College, Richardton,
North Dakota.

Perain P. Palmer, "Approximate Census of the Sioux
Indians belonging to the Cheyenne River reservation
who were in the battle of Wounded Knee and are yet
at Pine Ridge Agency S. D. taken June 30/91,"
National Archives Microfilm Publication, Microcopy
595, Roll 33. Also lists Wounded Knee fatalities.

C. E. McChesney, "Census of Cheyenne River
Agency S.D. Indians, June 30, 1890" (National
Archives Microfilm Publications, Microcopy 595,
Roll 33)
Aged 36 years. Also known as "Brown Eyes." Probable victim of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre at Wounded Knee. While one source has her surviving, most reports indicate she, her husband, and their children perished.

The 1886 U.S. Indian Census shows Hazel Eyes (sometimes known as Brown Eyes) living with her husband, Afraid of Enemy, and their children, Not Afraid of Lodge, Scared the Hawk, Moons, and Beautiful Spotted, on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Sources:
James McLaughlin Papers, Microfilm Roll 17,
Notebook 40, Assumption College, Richardton,
North Dakota.

Perain P. Palmer, "Approximate Census of the Sioux
Indians belonging to the Cheyenne River reservation
who were in the battle of Wounded Knee and are yet
at Pine Ridge Agency S. D. taken June 30/91,"
National Archives Microfilm Publication, Microcopy
595, Roll 33. Also lists Wounded Knee fatalities.

C. E. McChesney, "Census of Cheyenne River
Agency S.D. Indians, June 30, 1890" (National
Archives Microfilm Publications, Microcopy 595,
Roll 33)


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